Writing Quotes

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I've always liked new writing.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I loved the process of writing.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.